How to Change the Top of Your Trusty LC-A or LC-A+

This goes out to the unfortunate Lomographers whose LC-A+ od LC-A experienced a mishap and needs some care. If the top part of your trusty camera cracked or broke you'll learn how to change that part. Have fun and get your hands dirty to get a feel for your LC-A!

Difficulty level: II of V
You should feel comfortable with a screwdriver and with opening your camera.
If you are shaking from head to toes this is not going to work.

A new top for your LC-A+ (shoot me an email at customerservice@lomography.com)

A mini screw driver

A pointed knife or tweezers

Some super glue

How To
1. Remove the wind knob from the camera. Open the camera and stick something in the slot of the rewind prong to keep it from turning, then screw the knob off and lay it somewhere where you can find it again.

2. Unscrew the screws that were formerly covered by the rewind knob. Be careful to keep an eye on those screws and lay them aside with the rewind knob so you know later where those little things belong.

4. No it gets tricky! Be careful! With the knife or the tweezers lift the corner of the cover and pull it towards the lens to lift it from the cameras body. Be careful, you do not need to pull off too much.

Be careful about the shutter release button, it might fall out! But don’t worry you have to insert it into the new top anyways. Don’t lose the small metal thing that goes in the button for plugging in the cable release.

9. Screw the lens case back into place. Be careful that the slider on the bottom is in the right position for the shutter covers. It is best to keep the covers open and the slider at the bottom to the left when you put the lens case on again.

10. Screw the rewind knob on again. If the back of the camera is closed, screw the knob on a little and when it catches lift it up to open the back and then do the same blocking the prong screwing on as you did to remove the knob

What a perfect timing, @pheebs ! Thank you for the very informative article. I dropped my LC-A+ just after 1 week I had bought it on its 2nd film - and the top cracked right by the winding wheel. The amazing part is that everything (but the frame counter) still works perfectly :-)
I am going to email you now.

I had to done this already a couple of times, I bought a second hand LC-A. And the Asa settings where not working. So I just took the whole LC-A apart, fixed the Asa-settings (a screw was loose, so i could not turn the wheel, well i could turn the wheel, but nothing happened). It was fun doing that :D

Thanks! I managed to fix my broken ISO dial on my ЛOMO ЛK-A from 87'!
Very good tipster!
But you shouldn't close the back, was a hard time getting it open after I removed the WHOLE rewinding-wheel-stuff. (I used a Crochet hook to get it open again and the problem got solved)! ;)
Thanks once again!

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